Yet again, she shakes her head, her hair whipping back and forth with the force of her movement.

"It does not matter now. Whatever--whatever you did, it is now past. You are here. You are nowhere else."

And she cannot believe, in her heart of hearts, that Ryoji is evil. He may have been born to such a purpose (she cannot forget that night she healed him) but the Ryoji she knows--even Thanatos--has been nothing but kind.